Peter O'Toole Quotes

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

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• When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
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• I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

  

  Calvin Trillin
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• 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

  

  Victoria Hanley
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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

  

  Patrick Modiano
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• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

  Ralph Ellison
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• I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

  

  Ed Koch
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• Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

  

  Edmund White
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• People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
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• Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

  

  Buddy Rice
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• For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far greater than you think and have truly amazing potential. The key is to tap into your higher self and unleash your full capacity for success and happiness.

  

  T. Harv Eker
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• I feel like acting is sort of like that: You're getting so many 'no's all the time. It's just a bunch of no's and a couple of cool yes's. And especially with comedy, too, when you're up on stage, doing live shows, you get immediate yes's or no's.

  

  Jessica Williams
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• You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

  

  Peter O'Toole
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